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Testing this thing, because the spacing on the old theme was hell on earth.

I don’t understand how anyone writes like that, or even has any idea of it. I want to control my spacing and not give it up to someone who only believes I am worthy of a single space when I want to fill the universe with paragraphs.

Traffic was unusually heavy and I’d played it fast and loose with my time this morning

For some reason, it was time to whip everyone in a frenzy about illegal immigration again.

I’ve been told why it’s bad by the media for different reasons at various times whenever there was a need to stir up a frenzy and I haven’t the slightest clue what the fuss is all about, which tells me I really don’t want to have an opinion.

But the big black sign that said “DEPORT”, flanked with picnic-blanket sized protest posters, seemed to slow traffic to a crawl. Why this one when all the others are just zooming by? Maybe because, while it was clear this was a protest, it wasn’t clear what side everyone was on. Another reported sign said “VENGAN”, Spanish for “Welcome!”. This gave the impression from far off that the sign said “DEPORT VEGANS”

Whatever message the folks on I-10 at TC Jester were selling, its clear by the traffic slowdown that it was gawked at by Houstonians during morning rush hour. It also seems clear from commuter’s impressions that nobody is quite clear what it was.

i believe clinton when he said he smoked marajuana but “didn’t inhale.”

Postmodern Zen Koan: When clinton said he smoked marajuana but “didn’t inhale”, he wasn’t bullshitting.

If you’ve ever been a social alcoholic who’s had to quit drinking, the logic in play is natural.

When you’re at the bars and with your friends as an open non drinker, you act different. You’re a little straighter,

a little more isolated. You never feel loose. You don’t get approached loosely. The “oops” factor never ever

comes into play, like it used to after an evening of sitting with a lady and having drinks alone.

Basically, it’s all the bullshit of being at a bar without the benefits of the company of other social alcoholics

and generally lubricated people.

The placebo effect is a hell of a thing, and study after study shows that if you get a bunch of people in a room

and give them non alcoholic beer or some other benign substance they’re told is gonna ABSOLUTELY GET
YOU BITCHEN DRUNK BRO …. they act drunk.

You’re going to pull the wool over everyone’s eyes. You find the bartender. Order a diet coke with a lime,

a club soda short with a lime .. something that looks for all intents and purposes like a coctail.

HERE IS THE IMPORTANT STEP: When the bartender gives you the price or otherwise hands you the drink

which may be free, you give him a $5 and tell him these magic words – “Thank you. I don’t drink, but I want

to be stealth about it.”.

Showing some appreciation for the man, because you’re going to be seeing him all night drinking your pretend drinks just like you used to drink the real ones. Sip them and get loose, don’t let anyone know you aren’t drinking. Just tell the bartender you’d like another.

Tip him $1.00 each time.

Yes, you’ll spend a little money. Just like you used to, except about 10% of it.

You’ve effectively recreated your entire drinking culture ritual with the removal of alcohol in the picture.

You’ll get loose and have fun and the placebo effect kicks in after a bit of stealthy teetotaling.

Also, in the world of the 11:45am haze where all walls become a Parisian salon through the power

of liquor, you’ll have two superpowers!

1) You aren’t actually drunk, so your mind is still sharper than everyone else’s even if you aren’t actively aware of it!

2) When you put your key in the door, just like you’ve done staggering time after time, it’s actually very easy and you’re

suddenly very happy you aren’t actually drunk! Your motor skills are still sharper than everyone else’s even if you

aren’t actively aware!

There will be times you are briefly aware of your hidden potential, and these peaks shall seem mighty indeed.

So imagine there’s a pot smoking culture like a drinking culture. And you want to ingratiate yourself

into that culture, without the intoxicating bit. So you smoke, but you don’t inhale – the closest thing in the stoner

Hey bro keep it up man. I know that it is rough dealing with day to day stuff, but it will get better. Just keep yourself on a slow and steady path of self improvement and things will start to go your way automagically.

There appears to be a new sort of Lauren Canyon woman singer-songwriter thing going on,

but one that has its roots in arty doom metal. Sera Timms (Ides of Gemini, Black Math Horsemen, Black Mare), Emma Ruth Rundle (Red Sparowes, Marriages) are proving to be competent singer-songwriters in a very stripped down acoustic style.

Chelsea Wolfe is packaged with this group and it is certainly easy to draw comparisons.

Currently, one of her records is tearing up the Billboard Folk Music charts while her tracks get licensed to shows like “Game of Thrones”.

However, the record that would be of the most interest to the iBong crew is her second album, “Apokalypsis”.

Doom Pop? A mix of downtempo dub, singer-songwriter, drone and doom – with a splash of musique concrete? This will confuse the hell out of anyone who sees her name on the folk charts.